Description

This app enables you to use your android device as a remote surveillance camera or spy cam with motion detection functionality.

Motion Detector Pro is a camera surveillance app, that uses the built-in camera to detect movements in the surrounding area using an advanced motion detection algorithm. If it detects movement it sends an email or a text message with a picture link to another cell phone, allowing you to remotely monitor an area using your Android phone. Motion Detector Pro can:

✓ Take a picture when the camera sees a movement and send it to an email or another phone. Great for catching thieves, watching your business/home or keeping an eye on your pet

✓ Indicate realtime on the phones display where the movement is detected

✓ Stealth mode which closes the app as soon as the phone is touched

✓ Store the surveillance images on the cloud or locally on the phones SD-card

Why the required permissions?-Storage: Store surveillance images on the SD-card-Your messages: For remote startup of the alarm (using text messages)-System tools: For remote startup of the alarm (turns on the phone)-Services that cost your money: Sends an SMS when the alarm is triggered-Network communication: Access to the internet so the images can be sent-Hardware controls: Access to the camera-Your personal information: When you select a contact to receive the images

If you discover any bugs or problems don't rate it low - instead send an email to mvainformatics@gmail.com and we'll see if it can be fixed before the next release.

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Working perfectly without any operational issues Using since 3 days, 5 stars. Still, would like to have these features also. Then some more stars :-) 1) Facility to rotate the image by the user selected degrees (0/90/180/270) before saving. 2) Auto activate & de-activate at the user selected times, instead of the present countdown for activation. 3) The program may work even if the screen is auto-off. (Battery saving) 4) Facility to upload to Dropbox/Gdrive atc also. 5) Not to restrict the picture quality, Let the user select withing the user's camera options like picture quality/Low Light/jpg quality. 6) The images may be saved to the filename - UserName + DateTime 7) Facility to save photos to Ext SD memory card,

Fantastic!! This is prob the best of the pack. I do find some things are missing though (hence the 4 stars) 1) This app cant film video. 2) You should have an option to swich from seeing cloud storage photos to those you told the app to store on your phone. (I find it a real bother to oppen another app to see the pictures). 2) You should be able to set up hours where the flash will go of and some where it wont. 3) It would be nice to be able to select different wav or mp3 files as the sound to play whene triger goes of

good app but spammed after using it Worked well as standalone motion detector. Didn't have any probs with it stopping when screen lock came on. Tried it on a few phones (ZTE Manta, Sammy Ace2 & S5), all OK. Upload to server seems slow, and can only use devs cloud site (not dropbox/Drive, etc. Not sure if it works on cellular. The big hassle was the email address I entered for email notification was immediately spammed be med supplies adverts. Make sure you use a recognizable email so you can block these- the subject line is different, so you can still allow the detect alerts through.

Shud be able to run in background This concept is really cool, it alerts you, beeps you, save image, send text and email. It's a perfect spy camera with an alert, but there is a problem if i want to use this app for spying overnight property trespassers then its a problem. App shuts down with screen lock out and closes itself. Need to add background agent to run in background and enable night vision.

Great item ----my suggestion to have full effect get another cellphone .a cheap one will do .I went out and got an LG 306g from Tracfone for 20 bucks its a pretty good phone for price with a decent sized screen .. and my images are sent to me instantly ...great tool when used this way ....this is what I recommend..this comes in handy with my call forwarding app as well

Working perfectly without any operational issues Using since 3 days, 5 stars. Still, would like to have these features also. Then some more stars :-) 1) Facility to rotate the image by the user selected degrees (0/90/180/270) before saving. 2) Auto activate & de-activate at the user selected times, instead of the present countdown for activation. 3) The program may work even if the screen is auto-off. (Battery saving) 4) Facility to upload to Dropbox/Gdrive atc also. 5) Not to restrict the picture quality, Let the user select withing the user's camera options like picture quality/Low Light/jpg quality. 6) The images may be saved to the filename - UserName + DateTime 7) Facility to save photos to Ext SD memory card,

Fantastic!! This is prob the best of the pack. I do find some things are missing though (hence the 4 stars) 1) This app cant film video. 2) You should have an option to swich from seeing cloud storage photos to those you told the app to store on your phone. (I find it a real bother to oppen another app to see the pictures). 2) You should be able to set up hours where the flash will go of and some where it wont. 3) It would be nice to be able to select different wav or mp3 files as the sound to play whene triger goes of

good app but spammed after using it Worked well as standalone motion detector. Didn't have any probs with it stopping when screen lock came on. Tried it on a few phones (ZTE Manta, Sammy Ace2 & S5), all OK. Upload to server seems slow, and can only use devs cloud site (not dropbox/Drive, etc. Not sure if it works on cellular. The big hassle was the email address I entered for email notification was immediately spammed be med supplies adverts. Make sure you use a recognizable email so you can block these- the subject line is different, so you can still allow the detect alerts through.

Shud be able to run in background This concept is really cool, it alerts you, beeps you, save image, send text and email. It's a perfect spy camera with an alert, but there is a problem if i want to use this app for spying overnight property trespassers then its a problem. App shuts down with screen lock out and closes itself. Need to add background agent to run in background and enable night vision.

Great item ----my suggestion to have full effect get another cellphone .a cheap one will do .I went out and got an LG 306g from Tracfone for 20 bucks its a pretty good phone for price with a decent sized screen .. and my images are sent to me instantly ...great tool when used this way ....this is what I recommend..this comes in handy with my call forwarding app as well

So far...excellent! Thank you to Dev. The app does what it says it does, and hasn't had any issues so far. What I'd like to see in a future release would be uploads to Google drive or perhaps true background support (locking the phone if disturbed or picked up etc...) I use this on my spare LG F3, basically a mid range cost phone from perhaps 2 years ago, and that phone has no problem running this application. Very well done. Thank you again. PS: Surprisingly, it uses less battery power than I'd expect. :-)

THANK YOU!!! This is a perfect solution I was looking for a simple way to let me know if my dog came in the pet door when I was away from home. I had looked at expensive security cameras and monitors but none fit the problem. I set this up on an old Driod phone in a few minutes and it worked right away. It is so easy to set up and turn on the surveillance on and off. It worked perfectly and will save me worry about the dog being out, and save me money trying to buy an expensive monitoring system that may not work as well. I can't say enough good things.

Upgraded comment Got this working after fiddling for 1.5hours. frustrating, but now that I've got it working I am increasing its rating. The layout does something weird (landscape to portrait and back) making it hard to surveil a specific area, and the pictures are very blurry. The motion sensor does work though and it is taking pictures as promised. Since I'm trying to figure out which of my dogs is an evil genius it will work because they have different color (blurs), but if you need discernable pics I'm not so sure.

Hi Corrine. Thanks for your comment. The layout will be improved in the next release, however the switch between landscape/portrait will be kept for compatibility reasons. The blurry images is the not improvable, since it depends on the stream from the camera sensor. Taking "real" images is simply too slow, so not an option.

Great app - needs to respect phone orientation Some kids have been fooling around in my front yard or someone is casing my house for another break in. As a result I thought of using my old Droid phone to work as a simple web enabled security camera. I soon found this app and so far it works pretty well. It does crash alot but probably that is more due to the fact it is running on a custom ICS ROM on the original Droid1. Right now it is stable and sending me images perfectly via email. One thing that is a problem is that currently the phone is mounted in landscape mode but upside down (due to the position of the power cable). The images that are emailed to me are also upside down. It would be great if they could be shown respecting the orientation of the phone ie. not upside down! If I catch anyone expect some donations coming your way for sure! Thanks for the great app.

9-2014 this time it didn't ask for or have a spot for email address or phone number. Didn't work anyways. Original comment 11-2013 Blah garbage! Didn't work at all this time! Remote startup is a joke I guess. Never happened. After multiple tries no photo was ever taken. Tried with both screen on with app open and off (black screen). Still nothing. Turned alarm sensor on. Guess what happened? Yup, nothing. Thieves would have a blast with this motion detector...

Very nice app! Responsive developer. Need to be able to send a 'heartbeat' check. Cam/phone is setup for security to email. So...I expect no activity but would like to see SMS 'snap pic' just to know it is still 'alive' :) Love the SMS on/off! This app does exactly what I need it to. Donated and will continue as improvements come out. BTW, 1 more...would like to see app function with screen off...I have it covered with electrical tape now. :) Thanks again...very nice.

Cool app. Works well. Legit!! Really cool app. Easy to use and works well. 100% legit. It does exactly as the description says. Only reason it didn't get 5 stars from me is like the other user said... it does shut down when phone locks. But most phones now you can set the phone not to close after a allotted time but it will suck thru your battery. Beside that this app is really cool..

Shame. The detection and cloud technology works beautiful, but it needs the screen to be on the whole time which draws attention to it. The moment the screen times out the app turns off - so I get surveillence for 30 seconds after I put the phone down - useful!

Stopped working and ruined Christmas I left my kitty at home during Christmas and decided to check up on him with a surveillance app. I set my phone to watch over his food with this app and things worked great at first, I got an email with a pic of my kitty eating. Time passed and for the next 24h I did not get anyhing. I got worried and cut my holidays short. Turns out, this app breaks if you get a Skype call. At least my kitty was ok.

Needs Higher Resolution Simple to use. Adjustable sensitivity. Motion detection works well on my 1.2GHz Samsung phone. I just wish it would take pictures at my full 5mp resolution. It only does 800x480 heavily compressed. I'd like to be able to capture cool wildlife photos, but this is more of a surveillance quality. It's so low quality you might as well use an app that takes a short video. When it detects motion, I'd like it to be able to take a series of 5mp photos with the number and delay adjustable. I'd pay for a version that could do that. It only takes one photo and then has a minimum delay of 10 seconds.

Unable to operate overnight... This app provides an excellent motion detection algorithm (earning it one star). Unfortunately, an undocumented limitation exists that prevents the capture of more than 500 motion images. When this limitation is reached, there is no way to receive notice of motion events. Essentially, this application is useless if you intend to use your smartphone as a security camera.

Exactly what I was looking for What a great app! Easy to set up. Tested it and it does exactly what it says. I like the feature of sending who was caught on camera to another phone or email. And it's free, no gimmicks.....

Motion detector pro Caught somebody stealing quarters out of my jar in my bedroom. Hand came through a small window and grabbed the jar from outside empty out 5 10 bucks at a time. Recognize the watch and bracelets. The 19 year old punk who lives in my bldg. I needed not call the police.! showed him the photos and poped him in his ear. Miracle!!! it never happened again. Don't know what surprised him more photoz or the intense ringing in ear? Great app thank you I needed those quarters for my laundry ;-) Stever, peace!